《一起学英语吧》云日松雪

3、从英语原文小说开始学英语

　　The Good Earth:
　　DEMYSTIFYING THE EAST

　　In The Good Earth(1931),Pearl Buck tells a timeless story about a farmer struggling to eke out a living from the earth. Hardworking and wildly ambitious,Wang Lung and his wife, O-lan, pull themselves out of poverty, bring children into the world, survive famines and floods, and toil relentlessly to build a fortune without ever losing faith in the restorative power of the land. But their work is not the novels only story. Marriages and conniving family members, natural disasters and wars, births and adolescent rebellions, concubines and opium addiction make The Good Earth a rich and dramatic tap estry of life in early-twentieth-century China.

　　《大地》剧情介绍
　　揭开东方神秘的面纱

　　在《大地》（1931）中，赛珍珠讲述了一个永恒的故事，关于一个农民挣扎着从土地中谋生。王隆和他的妻子奥兰勤劳而又雄心勃勃，他们摆脱了贫困，生儿育女，从饥荒和洪水中幸存下来，并坚持不懈地努力积累财富，却从未失去对土地恢复力量的信心。但他们的作品并不是小说中唯一的故事。婚姻和纵容的家庭成员，自然灾害和战争，生育和青春期的反叛，妾和鸦片瘾，使《大地》丰富和戏剧性地挖掘了20世纪初中国的生活。

作者有话说

　　努力一下，希望这次四级能过Q^Q
加个翻译，不保真。
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原文选自Pearl S. Buck的《The Good Earth》